How we got
to Bitcoin.
The Foundation was established with broad humanitarian aims: supporting cooperation between communities, advancing the arts and sciences, promoting spiritual development and environmental sustainability. These aims reflected the founders' conviction that the world's problems run deeper than politics and economics — that they are ultimately problems of consciousness and values.
As the years passed, and as the monetary crises of the 2020s accelerated — pandemic money printing, inflation surges, collapsing purchasing power, housing unaffordability spiralling out of control — it became impossible to ignore that the monetary system was not a background fact of life but the central driver of nearly every crisis we care about.
The encounter with Bitcoin — and more broadly with Austrian economics — was, for the founders, a clarifying experience. Here was a body of thought that had diagnosed these problems with precision for a century. And here was a technology that offered, for the first time, a practical exit from the fiat system.
The Foundation's focus narrowed accordingly. Not because the broader mission changed, but because we came to understand that fixing money is the prerequisite for fixing everything else.
Foundation established
The Future Foundation is incorporated in Sydney as a private, not-for-profit organisation by Michael Wilkins. Articles of Association drafted and signed.
Broad educational mission
Initial focus on community education, environmental sustainability, spiritual development and human rights — consistent with the Foundation's original Articles of Association.
The pandemic money printing wake-up
Global central banks print trillions in response to COVID-19. Inflation follows. The founders' engagement with Austrian economics deepens as the monetary mechanism becomes impossible to ignore.
Bitcoin becomes the focus
Following years of study, the founders become convinced that Bitcoin represents the most important monetary development in human history — and that education about it is the Foundation's most valuable contribution.
The Bitcoin Transition launches
The sister project thebitcointransition.org launches, providing practical courses, resources and community for individuals and businesses transitioning to a Bitcoin standard.
World Future Foundation relaunches
The Foundation relaunches with a clear, focused mission: education about sound money, Austrian economics and Bitcoin — as the foundation for solving the world's deepest systemic crises.